- vt. 修理，修補(bǔ)；改善；修改
- vi. 改善，好轉(zhuǎn)
- n. 好轉(zhuǎn)，改進(jìn)；修補(bǔ)處
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詞態(tài)變化
第三人稱單數(shù):?mends;過(guò)去式:?mended;過(guò)去分詞:?mended;現(xiàn)在分詞:?mending;
助記提示
1. 媽媽在臨終前還在縫補(bǔ). 慈母手中線，游子身上衣。臨行密密縫，意恐遲遲歸。
2. 鄧媽媽直到臨終前還在幫我們敬愛的周總理修補(bǔ)衣服。
中文詞源
mend 修理，修補(bǔ)縮寫自amend,修理。來(lái)自拉丁語(yǔ)emendare,修理，糾正錯(cuò)誤，來(lái)自ex-,向外，menda,錯(cuò)誤，缺陷，詞源同mendicant,殘疾人，行乞者。
英文詞源
- mend
- mend: [12] Mend originated as a shortened form of amend [13] – or rather, of the Old French source of amend, which did not arrive in English until after mend. The Old French verb was amender, a descendant of Vulgar Latin *admendāre ‘remove faults, correct’. This in turn was an alteration of classical Latin ēmendāre (source of English emend [15]), a compound verb formed from the prefix exdenoting ‘removal’ and menda, mendum ‘fault, defect’. (Other Latin derivatives of mendum were mendīcus ‘injured’, which was used as a noun meaning ‘beggar’ – hence English mendicant [15]; and perhaps mendāx ‘speaking faultily’, hence ‘lying’, from which English gets mendacious [17].)
=> amend, emend, mendicant - mend (v.)
- c. 1200, "to repair," from a shortened form of Old French amender (see amend). Meaning "to put right, atone for, amend (one's life), repent" is from c. 1300; that of "to regain health" is from early 15c. Related: Mended; mending.
- mend (n.)
- early 14c., "recompense, reparation," from mend (v.). Meaning "act of mending; a repaired hole or rip in fabric" is from 1888. Phrase on the mend attested from 1802.
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. I felt that might well mend the rift between them.
- 我覺得那樣做也許可以讓他們冰釋前嫌。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 2. Somebody else lent me a pump and helped me mend the puncture.
- 別人借給我一個(gè)打氣筒，又幫我補(bǔ)好了輪胎。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 3. More evidence that the economy was on the mend was needed.
- 需要更多證據(jù)來(lái)證明經(jīng)濟(jì)正在好轉(zhuǎn)。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 4. They started to mend the woodwork and paint the walls.
- 他們開始修補(bǔ)木建部分，粉刷墻壁。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 5. They requested sappers to mend bridges or remove mines.
- 他們要求坑道工兵修橋或拆雷。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句